Monday, May 6, in the year of our Lord 2019
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldView.com)
North Korea Fired Missiles on Saturday
As North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un looked on, the Communist country fired several new missiles Saturday towards the East Sea at around 9am as simmering tensions with the West have once again started heating up, reports The Sun.
Trump Affirms Freedom of Conscience, Christian Adoption
On the 68th National Day of Prayer observance, President Donald Trump revealed some major policy announcements.
TRUMP: “Every citizen has the absolute right to live according to the teachings of their faith and the convictions of their heart. This is the bedrock of American life. To protect this heritage, my administration has strongly defended religious liberty — two words you haven’t heard too much about for a long period of time. But now you’re hearing it all the time: religious liberty.
“Earlier this week, I took action to ensure that federal employees can take paid time off to observe religious holy days. And just today, we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students, and faith-based charities. (Applause.) They’ve been wanting to do that for a long time. Right, Mike? They’ve been wanting to do that for a long time. It happened today.
“Together, we are building a culture that cherishes the dignity and worth of human life. Every child, born and unborn, is a sacred gift from God.
“In addition, I am committing to you today that my administration will preserve the central role of faith-based adoption and foster care agencies to care for vulnerable children, while following their deeply held beliefs.”
Why Homosexual Presidential Candidate Is on Time Cover
In his latest column, Christian radio talk show Dr. Michael Brown asks, “Did you see the front cover of Time? It features a picture of Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his [so-called] ‘husband,’ with the caption, ‘First Family.’ Why this exaltation of a fairly obscure, outlying political figure?”
Brown notes that the reason Pete Buttigieg has become the darling of the left is because he is a homosexual, “married” to his partner, and he is a professing Christian. And he is challenging sacred biblical and church traditions. What more could the left ask for?
“Mayor Pete and his partner are the perfect poster boys for the gay activist agenda, a culmination of years of messaging and marketing….They are like your ideal neighbors, just a little different. That’s the message that Time is sending to its readers. It’s time to redefine family! It’s time for America as a whole to embrace gay marriage! The old era is past!”
Pat Robertson Rejects Young Earth Creationist Theory
Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson rejected the belief that the universe is only 6,000 years old, calling it “nonsense”, reports The Christian Post.
Last Tuesday, the host of CBN’s “The 700 Club” said this.
ROBERTSON: “This universe that we live in is … 14 billion years old and there’s no question about it and we have tremendous geological records and all the rest of it and that 6,000 year stuff just doesn’t compute.”
Robertson, 89, was responding to a viewer who was confused by what she learned in church — “that the time of creation was 6,000 years ago” — versus what science says — that “dinosaurs are … millions of years old.”
He noted that the school he founded, Regent University, teaches the Old Earth view.
ROBERTSON: “There’s a course that they were trying to hustle around called creation science, it was just nonsense and it was so embarrassing… So let’s give God credit for what He did, not try to limit Him to 6,000 years.”
Robertson echoed his recent anti-Young Earth rant in 2012.
ROBERTSON: “We have skeletons of dinosaurs that go back about 65 million years. To say that it all came about in 6,000 years is just nonsense. … So there was a Big Bang. So? No one knows what caused the Big Bang, but I say God did it. … I don’t believe in so-called evolution as it is currently presented as non-theistic. I believe that God started it all and He’s in charge of all of it.”
2 Timothy 4:2-4 declares, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”
To be clear, Young Earth creationists arrive at 6,000 years (for both the Earth and the universe) by adding five days of creation (since Adam was said to have been created on the sixth day in the Bible), around 2,000 years between Adam and Abraham, and around 4,000 years between Abraham and the present (scholars say Abraham lived about 2,000 B.C.)
A film — titled Is Genesis History? — was released in 2017 to support the Young Earth view and debunk the notion that those who hold such a position are “unscientific” or “stupid.”
In an AnswersinGenesis.org article, Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell explains that “Robertson is blending a secular, humanistic, God-denying worldview with his inaccurate understanding of the biblical worldview to hatch a position that fits neither.”
In her husband, Dr. Tommy Mitchell’s detailed analysis of Robertson’s remarks, “The millions-of-years view, by demanding death before sin, challenges the gospel message itself.”
Alabama Rep on “Unwanted” Babies: “Kill Them Now or Kill Them Later!”
And finally, during a debate in the Alabama House of Representatives over a proposed abortion ban, Democratic Alabama Representative John Rogers made an astonishing remark about why he opposed the bill, reports LifeNews.com. Listen.
REP. ROGERS: “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”
In response, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted, “This is stomach curling and makes [Virginia Governor] Ralph Northam look like a moderate on abortion. Every Democrat running for President needs to be asked where they stand on this. The extreme turn we’ve seen from Democrats on abortion recently is truly sickening.”
Unbelievably, Rep. Rogers doubled down. Listen to this.
REP. ROGERS: “His mother should’ve aborted him when he was born or he wouldn’t have made that stupid comment, right? He’s evidently retarded or crazy.” Donald Trump’s son: “I know there’s something wrong with that boy. Just looking at him I can tell there’s something wrong with him.”
Proverbs 18:2 says, “A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.”
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Islamic Group Hamas Attacks Israel
Last Friday, a Hamas Palestinian Muslim sniper fired at Israeli troops across the border wounding two of them. A retaliatory Israeli air strike then killed two militants from Hamas that rules Gaza.
Then, on Saturday, Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel, drawing a wave of Israeli air strikes that killed a Palestinian baby and a gunman, reports Reuters.
Obama Said Trump’s Election Meant America Turned on Him
According to a new book Obama: The Call Of History by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, Barack Obama could not believe the American people had “turned on him” for Donald Trump, a man he had written off as a “cartoon”, reports The Daily Mail.
Obama told his family that “this hurts” and blamed Clinton who “brought many of her troubles on herself” and ran a “scripted, soulless campaign”.
Man Pretending to Be a Woman Wins Female Weight Lifting Competition
On Sunday, a biological man Mark Gregory who identifies as a woman and now calls himself “Mary” Gregory took the Masters world records for women’s squat, women’s bench press, and women’s deadlift, reports PJMedia.com.
British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies condemned the basic unfairness of biological men competing with biological women, tweeting, “This is a trans woman, a male body with male physiology, setting a world record and winning a woman’s event in America in powerlifting. A woman with female biology cannot compete. It’s a pointless unfair playing field.”
Beth Stelzer, the founder of www.SaveWomensSports.com, believes that “Transgender inclusion in women’s sports will be the end of women’s sports.”
Joe Biden Has 30-Point Lead over Bernie Sanders
Joe Biden holds a 30-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential field, reports TheHill.com.
New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio will jump into the 2020 presidential race next week, entering a crowded field of 21 other Democratic hopefuls and two Republicans, reports the New York Daily News.